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Accuracy is fundamental to journalism, but it’s a challenge to verify information when it flows at digital warp speed from so many sources. This presentation
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Robin Good's insight:
Craig Silverman, my "reference point" for everything about "accuracy" in online journalism, has published almost two years ago a truly useful slide deck full of valuable suggestions, tips and recommendations on how to go about detecting crap and BS when dealing with online news and social media sourced content.
Specifically the presentation includes valuable info on:
- Verifying social media info
- Social Account and Person evaluation
- Verifying images
- Verifying web info
- Misinformation and fact-checking
The 10-item reading list on the slide is worth by itself the ticket price.
Useful. Pragmatical. Resourceful. 8/10
Full deck: http://www.slideshare.net/craigsilverman/bs-detection-for-digital-content
Full complement: http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/regret-the-error/171713/8-must-reads-that-detail-how-to-verify-content-from-twitter-other-social-media/
Useful tips on how to evaluate information on the internet - mostly from a news verification perspective but can be useful in other situations as well
Some useful tips on how to rebalance the Timeliness vs. Accuracy and Quality equation for information dissemination. A must-read for any user of social media!
This is a good source for knowing how to "crap detect" not only for news websites and blog posts but also for social media claims as well.